{"id":21405,"date":"2015-11-26T05:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T05:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cabinet-calls-for-referendum\/"},"modified":"2015-11-29T00:25:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T00:25:43","slug":"cabinet-calls-for-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cabinet-calls-for-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet calls for referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The extraordinary cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister, Anastase Murekezi in \u2018village Urugwiro\u2019 has appealed on president Kagame to hold a nationwide referendum of amended 2015 Rwandan constitution as the law requires, a day after that the parliamentary chamber of deputies handed over the revised constitution.}<\/p>\n

The cabinet has analyzed the request letter of 24th November 2015, the president of deputies chamber sent to the office of the Prime Minister asking for legal procedures to adopt a nationwide referendum of Rwandan constitution as amended in 2015.<\/p>\n

The cabinet meeting has also considered articles 109 and 193 of the constitution of 2003 as amended to date, to approve changes.<\/p>\n

The cabinet requested president Kagame to approve the nationwide referendum.
\nThe law provides for the government to request for a referendum followed by the president of the Republic\u2019s approval who sets the schedule. <\/p>\n

The 2015 revised constitution has 177 articles reduced from 203, involving articles regarding presidential term limits , functioning of the senate, and president of supreme court among others. <\/p>\n

Outdated articles were removed from the constitution during the reform.<\/p>\n

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{The extraordinary cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister, Anastase Murekezi in \u2018village Urugwiro\u2019 has appealed on president Kagame to hold a nationwide referendum of amended 2015 Rwandan constitution as the law requires, a day after that the parliamentary chamber of deputies handed over the revised constitution.} The cabinet has analyzed the request letter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070393,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21405.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21405.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21405.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21405.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21405.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21405.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21405"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21405"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}